Rights beyond Borders The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China

by Foot, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780198297765
• ISBN10: 0198297769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Over the five decades since the establishment of the United Nations Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issues of human rights have become a dominant feature of our global community. An acceptance has grown of the treatment of individuals and groups within domestic societies as a legitimate focus of global attention. Played out dramatically in the US media, China has received a huge amount of this global attention, with many democracies sustaining a human rights element in their policies towards China. This book examines the affect that this normative evolution has had on the behavior of individuals, states, institutions, and advocacy networks, and assesses its impact on the relations between key international players and China. Focusing on the period since the Tiananmen bloodshed in June 1989, Rosemary Foot examines China's international and internal responses to the global attention paid to their human rights record. Foot expertly uncovers the conditions under which international human rights norms influence behavior, and determines how norms operate in the global system.

Author Biography

Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(26)
PART ONE: THE SETTING	27	(54)
The Evolution of the Global Human Rights Regime	29	(31)
The Global Consequences of China's Economic Reforms	60	(21)
PART TWO: THE PROCESS	81	(193)
The Generating of Attention, 1976-1989	83	(30)
Tiananmen and its Aftermath, June 1989-November 1991	113	(37)
The Shift to Multilateral Venues, 1992-1995	150	(40)
From Public Exposure to Private Dialogue, 1995-1998	190	(34)
Betting on the Long Term, 1998-1999	224	(27)
Conclusion: Rights beyond Borders?	251	(23)
Bibliography	274	(17)
Index	291